A rare case of small bowel obstruction secondary to ovarian torsion in an IVF pregnancy

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lazaridis, Alexandros ^a   Maclaran, Kate ^b   Behar, Nebil ^a   Narayanan, Priya ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; BROMOCRIPTINE; HUMAN ALBUMIN; LAXATIVE; PROGESTERONE;

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INTERMITTENT RIGHT ILIAC FOSSA PAIN; INTESTINE SOUND; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOOSE FECES; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVARY TORSION; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VAGINA PESSARY; VOMITING;

EID: 84875928323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-008551     Document Type: Article

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